Now Wave Glider robots come with hybrid engines, using wave or solar power.
Here are today's tech funding deals, in no particular order.
Liquid Robotics sent an autonomous wave-riding vehicle across the Pacific Ocean in 2012, and is now planning what to do with its $45 million fifth round of funding.
Editor's Pick Robot vehicle makes history for the farthest journey by an autonomous vehicle.
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Between the bottom of a swimming pool and the surface of Mars is one frontier a robot has never crossed: the Pacific Ocean. While humans and robots have conquered land and space, relatively little is known about our oceans, yet …
James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has joined Liquid Robotics, a maker of robot vehicles that explore the bottom of the ocean, as its chief software architect.
Gosling is a former Sun Microsystems fellow who is best …
